Herbaria

Family

Solanaceae

subfamily

Solanoideae

Genus

Withania Pauquy

Species

Withania somnifera (L.)Dunal

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.)Dunal

citation

in DC., Prodr. 13 (1) :5 453(1852)

herbariaSynonyms

Physalis somnifera L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAIA (Nv)

HEU (Nv)

CAIRC (Nv- Nn- Di)

ALEX (Mm)

CAI (Mm- Ms- Nv- Nn-Ol- On-S- Ge)

TANE (Nv-S)

Map

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herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

HEU

CAIA

CAIRC

ALEX

CAI

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

HEU (1)

CAIA (2)

CAIRC (5)

ALEX (3)

CAI (46)

TANE (18)

Habitat

Waste ground and roadsides

FlFrperiod

May-August

LifeForm

Micro-Phanerophyte

LifeSpan

Vegetative,flowering& Fruiting

herbariaArabicName

Sim El Firakh سم الفراخ

Morgaan مرجان

Sim El Far سم الفار

Shagaret El Ghorab شجره الغراب

EnglishName

ashwagandha/ poison gooseberry/ winter cherry

herbariaUses

medicinal

GlobalDistribution

S Europe, Mediterranean, , SW Asia and Australia

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Boulos, L. 2009. Flora of Egypt Checklist, Revised annotated edition, Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Hepper, N. 2002 Solanaceae in Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt, vol.3. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

El Hadidi, M.N.& Fayed, A. 1994/95. Materials for Excursion Flora of Egypt (EFE). Taeckholmia 15

Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' Flora of Egypt ed.2. Cairo University

Hepper, F.N. 1998. Solanaceae in N.El Hadidi (ed.)Flora of Egypt. Taeckholmia add. ser. no.6:1-168

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